I stan Firefox but I am scared about this to the point not much discussion exists on this.

  • frustbox@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    They have a knowledgebase article explaining why …

    … that doesn’t explain why. Yes it explains the technical mechanism by which extensions can be blocked, but no explanation why this feature is even there. There’s just a sentence about “various reasons, including security considerations.”

    I think it would help if they explained some of those “various reasons”, maybe with an example. Then I might even agree that those are situations where that might improve the user experience. Or the security.

    But I would absolutely demand a transparent process for how, why and by who these decisions get made. And possibly a way to enable the extension regardless - you open a page, an extension is blocked, you get a notification explaining why and giving you an override option.

    Part of me wants to believe that this is just very poorly communicated. Mozilla has been doing this for a while, for example extensions don’t work on addons.mozilla.org or any of the about: pages. And that seems reasonable to me. But I also don’t like the thought of mozilla policing what a user is or isn’t allowed to do.

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      1 year ago

      There does exist override option, as Jeff notes in the blog post I linked. The whole stuff surrounding this implementation though, is the real problem.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t mean some obscure about:config setting. I want it to show me some indication (doesn’t have to be a popup, those have their own set of issues) that tells me “Firefox blocked x extension on this site [enable it]” - like they do for popup windows that have been blocked.

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          1 year ago

          It is not obscure if you bothered to read linked blog writeup. It is as obscure as literally every option in about:config page.